Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Deadly cold is still gripping Europe with
parts of Eastern Russia dropping an incredible minus 53C or minus 63F

The cold snap in Europe has cost the lives
of nearly 50 people these past few days.

A Serbia resident has died of freezing and a
man is still reported missing. Over 120 people evacuated across Serbia due to
poor weather, media have reported. Snowed-in vehicles, chain collisions and
massive snowdrifts marked the past few days in Serbia, with low temperatures,
poor visibility and snowdrifts still creating problems and causing delays or
traffic stoppages. Around 30 villages in the Sjenica area remained blocked by
the snow, municipal president Hazbo Mujovic said on Monday afternoon. Many
roads are also closed, he added.

The freezing cold weather will continue in
Serbia until Wednesday, with morning temperatures ranging from minus 18 to
minus 10 degrees Celsius, in some areas dropping to minus 25. Over the weekend,
about ten mountain villages in the municipality of Vladicin Han were cut off
due to snowdrifts up to three meters tall. Also on Sunday, the coldest area of
Serbia was Sjenica in the southwest with minus 33 degrees. The Ministry of
Transportation decided to close the rivers Sava as well as Danube (from Bezdan
to Prahovo) for navigation due to the ice forming on the surface, and the
strong winds

High winds wreaked havoc in Colorado
Springs yesterday with wind gust reaching 101 miles per hour leaving thousands
without power.

In Australia the West coast once again had
temperatures of + 43C +110F